Edwin Reubens Emeritus professor, Paolo Bonaiuti, Tim Price Director, Justin Boston, Zachary Wells, Lee Tallman, Tim Johnson,
... World Bank and the environment Joining the club LinkedIn v freemasons Electronic ties that bind Software that ...
2009 - Gale Group | The Economist
... and professional networks such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn are where many people now exchange news and ... personal and professional networks, such as Facebook and LinkedIn, limit the amount of information that Google can ... press can also creep into the professional network LinkedIn. Many LinkedIn users automatically send their blog headlines and Twitter ... for recruiting, and 95% of those companies use LinkedIn? Why not tap into these huge, worldwide networks? ... sure you are committed to feeding the beast. LinkedIn – www.linkedin.com LinkedIn has grown to be ...
Tópico(s): Web and Library Services
2010 - Association for Information Science and Technology | Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
... to explore what motivates college students to use LinkedIn and what inhibits them from fully adopting it. ... faced by college students with respect to the LinkedIn usage. The study includes data collected from 30 ... why college students would be willing to use LinkedIn. Three categories – interpersonal communication, online identity and information – ... was found to be a category gratifying only LinkedIn users. Barriers to LinkedIn adoption included students’ ignorance of the network and the erroneous perception that a presence on LinkedIn should be initiated and/or developed only after ...
Tópico(s): Digital Marketing and Social Media
2015 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Young Consumers Insight and Ideas for Responsible Marketers
Sigal Tifferet, Iris Vilnai‐Yavetz,
LinkedIn is the largest professional social network site in the world, designed for professional networking, job seeking, ... The current study explores visual self-presentation in LinkedIn user portraits. LinkedIn portraits serve alongside explicit data posted in users' ... aimed, first, to identify the common features of LinkedIn portraits and to determine whether they adhere to ... Internet. Second, we offered grounded hypotheses suggesting that LinkedIn portraits, and other features of LinkedIn accounts, would ...
Tópico(s): Corporate Identity and Reputation
2017 - Elsevier BV | Computers in Human Behavior
Ridhi Kashyap, Florianne C. J. Verkroost,
... populations of professionals by leveraging audience estimates from LinkedIn’s advertisement platform to explore gender gaps among LinkedIn users across countries, ages, industries and seniorities. We further validate LinkedIn gender gaps against ground truth professional gender gap ... gender gap indicators using gender gaps computed from LinkedIn’s online population. We find that women are significantly underrepresented relative to men on LinkedIn in countries in Africa, the Middle East and ... indicator of the female-to-male ratio of LinkedIn users, which we term the LinkedIn Gender Gap ...
Tópico(s): Media Studies and Communication
2021 - Springer Nature | EPJ Data Science
Julie S. Zide, Ben Elman, Comila Shahani‐Denning,
... paper is to identify the elements of a LinkedIn profile that hiring professionals focus on most, and then examine LinkedIn profiles in terms of these identified elements across ... interviewed hiring professionals to determine their usage of LinkedIn. In the second phase, LinkedIn group member profiles from three industries – HR, sales/ ... significant differences with respect to ten of the LinkedIn variables in how people presented themselves across the ... Practical implications – User unwillingness to fully complete the LinkedIn profile suggests that it may not have replaced ...
Tópico(s): Social Media in Health Education
2014 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Employee Relations
... problem: In light of the growing popularity of LinkedIn as a self-promotional tool for the job ... process, this paper examines the rhetorical structure of LinkedIn Summaries. Research questions: (1) Which rhetorical moves are found in the Summary sections of LinkedIn profiles? (2) Do the Summary sections display similar ... strategies to achieve these purposes. Previous research on LinkedIn has focused on characteristics of the service and ... a study that analyzed the rhetorical structure of LinkedIn Summaries of 50 professional résumé writers in the ...
Tópico(s): Wikis in Education and Collaboration
2015 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Heather J. Carmack, Sarah N. Heiss,
... graduates are the fastest-growing user demographic on LinkedIn, with an estimated 40 million profiles for these ... students completed an online survey to determine their LinkedIn use, attitudes, perceived control, and social influences for ... that students are infrequent and passive users of LinkedIn. Past behaviors, attitudes, perceived behavioral control, and actual behavioral control were related to the effectiveness of LinkedIn to help them find internships and jobs. Parents and friends, attitudes, and past use of LinkedIn were related to their intention to use LinkedIn. ...
Tópico(s): Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
2018 - Taylor & Francis | Communication Studies
Elizabeth Silva, Alicia B. Mejía, Elizabeth Siegel Watkins,
... our earlier published study, we have found that LinkedIn is a superior platform for gathering career information, ... a Google search for [First Name] [Last Name] "LinkedIn" is more likely to yield relevant results. Additionally, ... results can be influenced by logging into a LinkedIn account for a user who is well connected ... that, when a user is logged into a LinkedIn account with more connections to institutional alumni, Google ... institutional alumni. Author E.A.S. has 800+ LinkedIn connections, many of whom are UCSF staff, students, ...
Tópico(s): Academic Writing and Publishing
2019 - American Society for Cell Biology | CBE—Life Sciences Education
Michael A. Johnson, Christopher Leo,
Job applicants are increasingly turning to LinkedIn for their job search, so much so that it is supplanting traditional job search tools in many ways. Despite this widespread usage, ... adverse outcomes of searching for a job on LinkedIn as well as these outcomes' influence on job ... social-cognitive view, suggesting that a change in LinkedIn use for job search is positively related to ... literature, an increase in job search behavior on LinkedIn was found to lead to poorer job search ... with results showing that upward social comparisons on LinkedIn lead to lower levels of self-efficacy. In ...
Tópico(s): Social and Intergroup Psychology
2020 - American Psychological Association | Journal of Applied Psychology
Johannes K. Chiang, Hung-Yue Suen, Hsiang-En Hsiao,
The research investigates how a LinkedIn group affect the factors that lead to group identification and group supportive behaviors. The results of a field study of a LinkedIn HR professional group members suggest that members of LinkedIn groups identify on the basis of selfcategorization, affective ... factor leading to identification for members of the LinkedIn groups. In addition, the study found a strong ... and the incidence of group supportive behaviors on LinkedIn. The research has important implications for organizations using ...
Tópico(s): Social and Intergroup Psychology
2013 - | International Business Management
N. Vivekananthamoorthy, E. R. Naganathan, R. Rajkumar,
... in usage of Social Networking Sites like Facebook, LinkedIn etc. by college students and young professionals. This study focuses on identifying key factors that influence LinkedIn usage and the role of eWOM communication in ... young university students use the Social Networking Site LinkedIn and the responses were used to frame a ... Scale. Exploratory Factor Analysis was conducted using the LinkedIn Survey responses to identify the hidden factors associated ... used to perform multivariate statistical analysis on the LinkedIn Survey response items. Findings: The exploratory study on ...
Tópico(s): Social Media and Politics
2016 - Indian Society for Education and Environment | Indian Journal of Science and Technology
... network sites designed for professional purposes, such as LinkedIn, report higher professional informational benefits than nonusers. However, ... more informational benefits were more likely to use LinkedIn. The goal of this study was to explore ... sample of Dutch Internet users (n = 685; 259 LinkedIn users) to examine the relationships between networking and LinkedIn use as well as professional informational benefits, that ... their organization) are also more likely to use LinkedIn. External networking was also positively correlated with active ...
Tópico(s): Knowledge Management and Sharing
2019 - Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking
Guilherme Pinho, João Victor Silva Arantes, Tiago A. Marques, Frederico Branco, Manuel Au‐Yong‐Oliveira,
LinkedIn is undoubtedly a market leader when it comes to social networks that are aimed for professional ... this article are to understand the relevance of LinkedIn use by an ICT recruiter taking into account ... if ICT students and workers with an updated LinkedIn profile are contacted by recruiters, and comprehend if ... a software house. The results obtained suggest that LinkedIn is an essential recruitment tool for the ICT ... emphasize that most companies combine organic recruitment with LinkedIn recruitment. In our study, 89% of the respondents ...
Tópico(s): Human Resource and Talent Management
2019 - Springer Nature | Advances in intelligent systems and computing
... media acceptance and use. Some scientists would add LinkedIn to Facebook and Twitter as the big three ... the following months and even years. Microsoft's LinkedIn—originally dubbed as the Facebook of work and ... among many scientists because of its professional focus. LinkedIn started as a platform for advertising vacancies, but ... soared during the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. Indeed, LinkedIn has been promoting its virtual platform both to ... and the latter's subsidiary YouTube (https://news.linkedin.com/2020/march/supporting-our-members-and-customers- ...
Tópico(s): Climate Change Communication and Perception
2020 - Springer Nature | EMBO Reports
Jamie Guillory, Jeffrey T. Hancock,
This study explores how Linkedin shapes patterns of deception in resumes. The general self-presentation goal to appear favorably to others motivates deception when one' ... characteristics are inconsistent with their desired impression. Because Linkedin makes resume claims public, deception patterns should be ... three resume settings: a traditional (offline) resume, private Linkedin profiles, or publicly available Linkedin profiles. Findings suggest that the public nature of Linkedin resume claims affected the kinds of deception used ...
Tópico(s): Deception detection and forensic psychology
2012 - Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking
Enrique Bonsón Ponte, Michaela Bednárová,
... to which Eurozone companies use the social network LinkedIn, how they manage their online practices, what is ... examine how stakeholder engagement is managed by using LinkedIn, a sample of 306 companies listed in the ... countries, is analysed. To measure the extent of LinkedIn usage, an index was defined and calculated on ... of the companies (79 per cent) do use LinkedIn, they mainly focus on a particular group of ... also show that the audience of a corporate LinkedIn channel is influenced by the extent of usage ...
Tópico(s): Knowledge Management and Sharing
2013 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Online Information Review
V ́ictor M., Andrew Manuel, Fidel Cacheda,
... no studies about the detection of Spam in Linkedin. In this article, we propose a method for detecting Spammers and Spam nets in the Linkedin social network. As there are no public or private Linkedin datasets in the state of the art, we have manually built a dataset of real Linkedin users, classifying them as Spammers or legitimate users. The proposed method for detecting Linkedin Spammers consists of a set of new heuristics ... method for detecting Spam nets (fake companies) in Linkedin, based on the idea that the profiles of ...
Tópico(s): Text and Document Classification Technologies
2013 - Science and Information Organization | International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
... cards. Although not geared towards medical professionals specifically, LinkedIn.com is one of my personal favourites. It ... to foster educational and research collaborations (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/leslie-citrome/12/3a8/42b). Every ... my University using the infrastructure afforded by the LinkedIn website. Access to LinkedIn is free, but premium features such as being ... to ResearchGate is currently free. Advantages to using LinkedIn and ResearchGate include easily connecting with people you ... remarks about people, employers or organisations. Participating in LinkedIn and ResearchGate does entail some responsibilities. If these ...
Tópico(s): Social Media in Health Education
2015 - Wiley | International Journal of Clinical Practice
Chunmian Ge, Ke‐Wei Huang, Ivan Png,
Research summary : This article applies data from LinkedIn to advance strategy research into the effect of human capital on mobility of engineers and scientists. Through an inventor survey, we show that LinkedIn provides more accurate career histories than patents. Compared to LinkedIn , patent measures of mobility generate 12 percent false positives and 83 percent false negatives. Using LinkedIn , we review findings from previous research using patents ... their human capital. Here, we introduce data from LinkedIn to review the previous research. Through an inventor ...
Tópico(s): Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
2015 - Wiley | Strategic Management Journal
Jacquelynn Jones, Jason B. Colditz, Ariel Shensa, Jaime E. Sidani, Liu yi Lin, Martha Ann Terry, Brian A. Primack,
... investigate the association between frequency of use of LinkedIn, the most commonly used professional social networking website, ... the ages of 19-32 regarding frequency of LinkedIn use, depression and anxiety, and sociodemographic covariates. We ... multivariable logistic regression to assess the association between LinkedIn use and depression and anxiety, while controlling for ... 72% of participants did not report use of LinkedIn, 16% reported at least some use, but less ... covariates, compared with those who did not use LinkedIn, participants using LinkedIn at least once per week ...
Tópico(s): Mental Health via Writing
2016 - Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking
Sabrina Pisano, Luigi Lepore, Rita Lamboglia,
... concentration and human capital (HC) disclosure released via LinkedIn. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a quantitative ... analysis was used to examine HC disclosure via LinkedIn. Regression analysis was used to test the hypothesis. ... that ownership concentration negatively influences HC disclosure via LinkedIn, confirming that closely held firms have little motivation ... out that, despite the potential opportunities provided by LinkedIn to build and enforce relationships with their stakeholders, ...
Tópico(s): Corporate Finance and Governance
2017 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Journal of Intellectual Capital
Xuguang Li, Andrew Cox, Zefeng Wang,
... popular communication tool for knowledge sharing and construction. LinkedIn, which concentrates on professional networking, is reported to ... users’ knowledge construction in solving technical problems on LinkedIn, which was chosen as a case example. Design/ ... and associated trial-and-error strategy used on LinkedIn are similar to those found in peer support forums. However, LinkedIn members are more engaged in knowledge construction episodes. ... to-one direct interaction is quite salient. Therefore, LinkedIn can support knowledge construction in a more efficient ...
Tópico(s): Wikis in Education and Collaboration
2018 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Online Information Review
Nicolas Roulin, Julia Levashina,
Abstract Various surveys suggest LinkedIn is used as a screening and selection tool by many hiring managers. Despite this widespread use, fairly little is known about whether LinkedIn meets established selection criteria, such as reliability, validity, ... no adverse impact). We examine the properties of LinkedIn‐based assessments in two studies. Study 1 shows ... when profile updates are taken into account. Initial LinkedIn‐based ratings correlate with self‐reports for more ... and personality traits (Extraversion), and for cognitive ability. LinkedIn‐based hiring recommendations are positively associated with indicators ...
Tópico(s): Emotional Intelligence and Performance
2018 - Wiley | Personnel Psychology
LinkedIn is the leading social network site focusing on professional life, with over 500 million customers, but ... the first to examine gratifications received from using LinkedIn by U.S. adults and relationships between those ... framework. The cross-sectional study surveyed 390 active LinkedIn customers 25 and older about gratifications received, intensity ... used to identify three gratification factors for using LinkedIn: jobs and job affairs, social aspects of employment, ... significant relationship with both intensity of attitudes toward LinkedIn and site usage. This was a surprising finding, ...
Tópico(s): Digital Marketing and Social Media
2018 - | Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies
LinkedIn is a famous online social networking platform for the jobholders, jobseekers and employers although their purposes ... to identify the passive jobseekers’ perceived experience towards LinkedIn as a job searching platform. We used Focused ... 150 respondents from Bangladesh and India who use LinkedIn as professional social networking site frequently. After summarizing the FGD results, it was revealed that LinkedIn is the most preferred source of job search ... care much about privacy, fairness and ethics on LinkedIn as a professional social networking site (SNS). We ...
Tópico(s): Digital Marketing and Social Media
2020 - Nova Southeastern University | The Qualitative Report
Michael Healy, Sandra Cochrane, Paula Grant, Marita Basson,
... career exploration and incubators of professional identity. Accordingly, LinkedIn is a rich environment for university students' careers ... the authors review how the pedagogical use of LinkedIn has been conceived, implemented and evaluated in higher ... research articles and chapters investigating the use of LinkedIn for careers and employability learning. The authors conducted ... tend not to consider ethical concerns about using LinkedIn as a pedagogical tool. Practical implications The authors ... evidence base. The authors recommend that educators employing LinkedIn in the curriculum ground their work in more ...
Tópico(s): Higher Education Learning Practices
2023 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Education + Training
José C. Andrés, David Aguado, Antonio León García Izquierdo,
The use of LinkedIn as a tool in the recruitment and selection process has become routine in human resource management. However, a major ... for further research on the psychometric guarantee of LinkedIn as a tool in the selection process. This ... signalling theory as a framework for exploring how LinkedIn profile information signals a candidate's soft skills. ... by means of a self-report questionnaire and LinkedIn profiles were assessed using rubrics for measuring the LinkedIn Big Four. Our findings demonstrate that LinkedIn Big ...
Tópico(s): Knowledge Management and Sharing
2023 - Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid | Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
Sébastien Fernandez, Marie Stöcklin, Lohyd Terrier, Sowon Kim,
LinkedIn is considered the most effective social network website for job seekers and recruiters. Although LinkedIn profiles are regularly accessed to evaluate candidates, we ... aim of this study is to determine if LinkedIn profiles convey accurate information about individuals' personality traits. ... reflect their personality. To examine this assertion, 607 LinkedIn profiles were coded on 33 indicators. Regression analyses and classification statistics demonstrate that Linkedin profiles contain accurate signals of personality traits. Potential ...
Tópico(s): Impact of Technology on Adolescents
2021 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Research in Personality
Liyun Zeng, Rita Yi Man Li, Yunyi Mao, Hong Chen, Huiling Zeng,
... focus, we analysed the posts on Weibo and LinkedIn through Pycharm, Navicat Premium, KHCoder, and Tableau. This ... on Weibo and 533 posts (3733 sentences) on LinkedIn. On Weibo, the most influential users were governments ... Baotou Evening News, and Baoding Evening News. On LinkedIn, the most influential person was the co-director ... Neutral Cities Alliance. The most popular topics on LinkedIn included “city,” “carbon,” “climate,” “neutral,” “energy,” “emission,” “sustainability,” “ ... and “industry” are more prevalent in Weibo. Both LinkedIn and Weibo users focus on “energy” and related ...
Tópico(s): Climate Change Communication and Perception
2022 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Environmental Science